Exam 12: Basic Electricity and Magnetism

If two light bulbs are wired in series and one bulb burns out, the other bulb will ____.

Copper wire sizes are measured in circular mils.

The ampere is ____.

The unit of measurement for the charge a capacitor can store is called a Joule.

One kilowatt of electrical energy is equal to 1,000,000 watts.

When calculating the total resistance of a parallel circuit, the result will always be lower than the lowest resistance.

A single diode can be connected as a full wave rectifier.

A transformer has 10,000 turns of wire in the secondary and 100 turns in the primary. The transformer is connected to a line voltage of 120 V. The output voltage will be ____________________ volts.

Typical insulators are: ____.

If two electrical loads are connected in parallel with each other and each load draws 6 A, what is the total current of the circuit ?

Describe a thermistor.

If a conductor carrying electrical current is formed into a coil, the strength of the magnetic field generated by the wire will increase.

A heat sink is a device to improve the purity of the electrons in an electrical circuit.

A PTC thermistor causes the resistance of the thermistor to increase when its temperature rises.

The unit of measure for resistance is the ____________________.

What type of charge does an electron have?

A solid state device that allows electrical energy to flow through in only one direction is called a(n) ____________________.

How can a magnetic field around an iron core be generated ?

If five electrons combine with three protons, the net charge will be ____.

As the diameter of a wire increases, its resistance will also increase.